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frussare

frussare, ~iare, ~ire [AN fruisser, fruissir; cf. frustare] 1 to break in pieces, smash. 1272 in pomis ~andis et conculcandis ad ciceram faciendam MinAc 935/3 m. 2d.. 2 to break up (uncultivated ground), bring (land) into cultivation. Cf. frangere 3. 1200 Rogerus de S. r. c. de xx s. ut possit ~are v acras de pastura sua Pipe 202; 1204 debet v m. pro quater xx acris fruissandis Ib. 196; 1209 pro quadam pastura essartanda et ~anda Ib. 118; 1220 quod frussire possint usque ad xv acras in bruera de B. Cl 417b; 1224 xij acras terre ‥ ad fruissendum et excolendum Cl 617a; 1230 pro duabus acris et dimidia de pastura sua fruissanda in H. Pipe 134; 1232 permittatis eis ‥ quinquaginta acras fruissire et excolere, allocatis eis ‥ xij acris et dim. quas jam fruissierunt et excolerunt Cl 68; 1236 frussiaverunt circiter quinque acras de pastura illa CurR XV 1898; 1241 idem G. concessit predicto abbati x acras terre ad fruscandum cum xxiiij acris terre que fruscate sunt, in Baddebur’, salva predicto G. et heredibus suis communa pastura in predicta frussura post blada asportata Cart. Glast. 211; 1256 quod frussire fecerunt quamdam partem predicte more et quamdam partem incluserunt fossato et haya AssizeR Northumb 8; 1272 potest et solet ~are, assartare, molendina et stagna construere [etc.] Cart. Chester 91; 1334 ad pasturas, moras seu mariscos ‥ que modo pro majori parte fruscuntur et in culturam rediguntur DL Forest Proc. 1/17 r. 3; s1240 ita quod possint in predictis mariscis frassire et terram inde excolere Croyl. Cont. B 477.

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